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Yoko Miwa Trio: Fadeless Flower

by Dan McClenaghan
June 4, 2004

Like so many jazz pianists, Yoko Miwa began her musical journey in classical music; and to jazz she brings the nuance, subtley and a forthright beauty engendered in her early studies. Miwa's right hand creates sparkling rivulets inside the rhythmic flow on songs like “In My Heart" and the disc's title tune, “Fadeless Flower," both compelling personal statements. The delicate lyricism of those tunes is balanced by the churning down-home groove on “Blues in the Cave," the gospel inflections of ...